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The Grasshopper (short Story)
"The Grasshopper" (russian: Попрыгунья, translit=Poprygunya) is an 1892 short story by Anton Chekhov. Background and publication history On 12 September 1891 Viktor Tikhonov, who had just become the editor-in-chief of ''Sever'', asked Chekhov in a letter to write a story for his magazine. Chekhov agreed but in an 11 October letter informed Tikhonov that he had not yet decided on either story's title or even what it would be about, telling him, "you can romise the subscriberssomething that will be called either 'A Story' or 'Ordinary People', both would be spot on." Chekhov set out to work on it on 21 November. James N. Loehlin writes that the story was influenced by Chekhov's earlier story "A Misfortune", which likewise told a tale of adultery. On 30 November he sent Tikhonov the manuscript of the story, originally titled "The Great Man" (Великий человек, Velikiy chelovek). In an accompanying note he wrote: "Hereby I send you a little touching novel for a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WikiProject Novels
A WikiProject, or Wikiproject, is a Wikimedia movement affinity group for contributors with shared goals. WikiProjects are prevalent within the largest wiki, Wikipedia, and exist to varying degrees within sister projects such as Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikidata, and Wikisource. They also exist in different languages, and translation of articles is a form of their collaboration. During the COVID-19 pandemic, CBS News noted the role of Wikipedia's WikiProject Medicine in maintaining the accuracy of articles related to the disease. Another WikiProject that has drawn attention is WikiProject Women Scientists, which was profiled by '' Smithsonian'' for its efforts to improve coverage of women scientists which the profile noted had "helped increase the number of female scientists on Wikipedia from around 1,600 to over 5,000". On Wikipedia Some Wikipedia WikiProjects are substantial enough to engage in cooperative activities with outside organizations relevant to the field at issue. For e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osip Dymov
Osip Dymov (Russian: Осип Дымов) is the central fictional character in the classic Russian story " The Grasshopper" (''Poprygunya''; 1892) by Anton Chekhov.Loehlin, James N. (2010). The Cambridge introduction to Chekhov'. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. . p. 80-83 (on "The Grasshopper "); here: p. 80. For generations this character has served to inspire medical professionals as to the standards of dedication expected from them. About the character Dymov is an unassuming doctor married to Olga Ivanovna, a beautiful and wealthy socialite, and amateur artist, who allows her moral values, as well as sense of beauty, to become distorted by her restless search for great men."Anton Pavlovich Chekhov." ''Encyclopedia of World Biography''. Detroit: Gale, 1998; updated 2004. Retrieved via ''Biography in Context'' database, 2017-04-26. They soon grow apart, due to her preference for the "fast life", on the one hand, and his total dedication to his profession, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergei Bondarchuk
Sergei Fyodorovich Bondarchuk (russian: Сергей Фёдорович Бондарчук, ; uk, Сергі́й Федорович Бондарчук, Serhíj Fédorovych Bondarchúk; 25 September 192020 October 1994) was a Soviet and Russian actor, film director, and screenwriter of Ukrainian, Bulgarian and Serbian origin who was one of the leading figures of Russian cinema of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. He is known for his sweeping period dramas, including the internationally acclaimed four-part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's ''War and Peace'' and the Napoleonic War epic '' Waterloo''. Bondarchuk's work won him numerous international accolades. His epic production of Tolstoy's ''War and Peace'' won Bondarchuk, who both directed and acted in the leading role of Pierre Bezukhov, the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film (1968), and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1968. He was made both a Hero of Socialist Labour and a People's Artist of the USS ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Druzhnikov
Vladimir Vasilievich Druzhnikov (russian: Влади́мир Васи́льевич Дру́жников; 30 May 1922 – 20 February 1994) was a Soviet actor. He appeared in more than 40 films between 1945 and 1992. He was a People's Artist of the RSFSR (1974) and the winner of two Stalin Prizes (1948, 1950). Partial filmography * ''Bez viny vinovatye'' (1945) - Grigoriy Neznamov * ''The Stone Flower'' (1946) - Danilo - master * ''The Great Glinka'' (1946) - Rileyev * ''Nashe serdtse'' (1947) - Sergey Kazakov * ''Ballad of Siberia'' (1948) - Andrei Nikolayevich Balashov * ''Konstantin Zaslonov'' (1949) - Konstantin Zaslonov * ''Zagovor obrechyonnykh'' (1950) - Mark Pino * '' Zhukovsky'' (1950) - Nesterov * '' The Miners of Donetsk'' (1951) - Trofimenko * ''Admiral Ushakov'' (1953) - Midshipman Vasilyev * ''Attack from the Sea'' (1953) - Capt. Vasilyev * ''Chest tovarishcha'' (1953) - mayor Sergey Bokunov * ''Opasnye tropy'' (1955) - Vasiliy Zholudev * ''The Grasshopper'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyudmila Tselikovskaya
Lyudmila Vasilyevna Tselikovskaya (russian: Людмила Васильевна Целико́вская, 8 September 1919 – 4 July 1992) was a Russian actress, best remembered for her leading parts in films like ''Hearts of the Four'' (1941–1944), ''Anton Ivanovich Gets Angry'' (1941), ''The Aerial Cabman'' (1943), ''Ivan the Terrible (1944 film), Ivan the Terrible'' (1944), ''Twins'' (1945) and ''The Busy Estate'' (1946). She had a troubled artistic career and received her (relatively modest) People's Artist of the RSFSR title only in 1963 (having been notoriously denied the much coveted People's Artist of the USSR accolade). Ignored by the officialdom, Tselikovskaya was admired by the general public and is revered as a true legend of the Soviet War time cinema. Biography Lyudmila Vasilyevna Tselikovskaya was born in Astrakhan to a family of musicians. Her father, a theatre musical producer, later went on to conduct the Bolshoi Theatre orchestra. Her mother, an opera singer, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samson Samsonov
Samson Iosifovich Samsonov (russian: Самсо́н Ио́сифович Самсо́нов; 23 February 1921 – 31 August 2002) was a Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter, he was granted the honorary title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1991. Samson Samsonov graduated from Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in 1951, where he studied under Sergei Gerasimov. Filmography *''Poprygunya (Попрыгунья) / The Grasshopper'' (1955) *''Za vitrinnoy univermaga (За витриной универмага) / Behind Show Windows'' (1956) *''Ognennye versty (Огненные вёрсты) / Miles of Fire'' (1957) *''Rovesnik veka (Ровесник века) /Contemporary of the Century'' (1960) *''Optimisticheskaya tragediya (Оптимистическая трагедия) / Optimistic Tragedy'' (1963) *''Tri sestry (Три сестры) / The Three Sisters'' (1964) *''Arena (Арена) / Arena'' (1967) *''Kazhdyy vecher v odinnadtsat (Каждый вечер ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Grasshopper (1955 Film)
''The Grasshopper'' (russian: Попрыгунья, Poprygunya) is a 1955 Soviet Union, Soviet drama film directed by Samson Samsonov based on a short story of the same title by Anton Chekhov. It was nominated for a British Academy of Film and Television Arts, BAFTA award for BAFTA Award for Best Film, Best Film in 1957. The lead character is said to be based on Sofia Kuvshinnikova who although married to another was until 1890 living with the painter Isaac Levitan in the town of Plyos, Ivanovo Oblast, Plyos where Sofia was improving her painting skills.Biographical notes and works from the Museum of Landscape, Plyos. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constance Garnett
Constance Clara Garnett (; 19 December 1861 – 17 December 1946) was an English translator of nineteenth-century Russian literature. She was the first English translator to render numerous volumes of Anton Chekhov's work into English and the first to translate almost all of Fyodor Dostoevsky's fiction into English. She also rendered works by Ivan Turgenev, Leo Tolstoy, Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Goncharov, Alexander Ostrovsky, and Alexander Herzen into English. Altogether, she translated 71 volumes of Russian literature, many of which are still in print today. Life Garnett was born in Brighton, England, the sixth of the eight children of the solicitor David Black (1817–1892), afterwards town clerk and coroner, and his wife, Clara Maria Patten (1825–1875), daughter of painter George Patten. Her brother was the mathematician Arthur Black, and her sister was the labour organiser and novelist Clementina Black. Her father became paralysed in 1873, and two years later her mother died ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Chekhov (writer)
Mikhail Pavlovich Chekhov (Russian: Михаил Павлович Чехов; (6 October 1865, Taganrog - 14 November 1936, Yalta) was a Russian writer and theater critic; the youngest brother and biographer of Anton Chekhov. Biography He graduated at the top of his class at the Taganrog Gymnasium, then attended the , where he began contributing articles to humorous newspapers and magazines. From 1885 to 1890, he studied law at Moscow University.Mikhail Chekhov @ the Chekhov website. From 1890 to 1898, he was stationed as a tax collector at several locations in the Moscow region. In 1891, his translation of the short story "A Rainy June" by appeared in the ''Bulletin of Foreign Literature''. Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik
Tatiana Lvovna Shchepkina-Kupernik (russian: Татья́на Льво́вна Ще́пкина-Купе́рник, in Moscow, Russian Empire – July 27, 1952 in Moscow, USSR) was a Russian and Soviet writer, dramatist, poet and translator. Biography Born in the family of Kiev advocate Lev Kupernik, Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik was a granddaughter of famous Russian actor Mikhail Shchepkin and Elena Dmitrievna who was a Turkish captive during the Siege of Anapa. She graduated from the Kiev Gymnasium. In her twelfth year Shchepkina wrote a poem in honour of her grandfather. In 1892 Moscow Maly Theater staged her play called ''Summer picture''. In the 1892–1893 theatrical season Shchepkina played in the Korsh Theater. Shchepkina worked with several Russian periodicals - ''Artist'', ''Russian Vedomosti'', ''Russian Idea'', ''Northern Courier'', ''New Time'', using different literary styles. In 1895-1915 she wrote a number of prose and poetry collections. Her poem ''At Homeland' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Bunin
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin ( or ; rus, Ива́н Алексе́евич Бу́нин, p=ɪˈvan ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪtɕ ˈbunʲɪn, a=Ivan Alyeksyeyevich Bunin.ru.vorb.oga; – 8 November 1953) was the first Russian writer awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was noted for the strict artistry with which he carried on the classical Russian traditions in the writing of prose and poetry. The texture of his poems and stories, sometimes referred to as "Bunin brocade", is considered to be one of the richest in the language. Best known for his short novels '' The Village'' (1910) and ''Dry Valley'' (1912), his autobiographical novel '' The Life of Arseniev'' (1933, 1939), the book of short stories ''Dark Avenues'' (1946) and his 1917–1918 diary ('' Cursed Days'', 1926), Bunin was a revered figure among white emigres, European critics, and many of his fellow writers, who viewed him as a true heir to the tradition of realism in Russian literature established by Tolst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lev Tolstoy
Count Lev Nikolayevich TolstoyTolstoy pronounced his first name as , which corresponds to the romanization ''Lyov''. () (; russian: link=no, Лев Николаевич Толстой,In Tolstoy's day, his name was written as in pre-reformed Russian. ; ), usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. He received nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature every year from 1902 to 1906 and for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1901, 1902, and 1909; the fact that he never won is a major controversy. Born to an aristocratic Russian family in 1828, Tolstoy's notable works include the novels ''War and Peace'' (1869) and ''Anna Karenina'' (1878), often cited as pinnacles of realist fiction. He first achieved literary acclaim in his twenties with his semi-autobiographical trilogy, ''Childhood'', '' Boyhood'', and ''Youth'' (1852–1856), and '' Sevastopol Sketches'' (1855), based upon his experiences in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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